Republican

After Tuesday’s elections, some are saying the Tea Party is over. Moderate Republican Chris Christie won big in New Jersey, while hardliner Ken Cuccinelli lost a governor’s race in Virginia. As the AP reported, “As partisanship renders Washington largely dysfunctional, voters in two states signaled this week that they want consensus-building even when there’s divided […]
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The verdict is mixed, even within the Republican Party. As Yahoo News reported, the debate even affects the party’s top panel, “When Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz began his 21-hour speech on the Senate floor in protest of Obamacare, the Republican National Committee, seeing an opportunity to rally supporters and donors, quickly got behind him. […]
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For many observers, the result is clear. Obamacare wasn’t “defunded,” though Republicans can say they raised national awareness on this issue as well as deficit spending. As the New York Times reported, “Congressional Republican leaders conceded defeat Wednesday in their budget fight with President Obama over the new health care law, agreeing to support a […]
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So far the record is mixed. As the AP reported, “Investors sold stocks across the board Thursday as a U.S. government shutdown dragged into its third day and the nation inched closer to a critical deadline to raise its borrowing limit. Stocks opened lower and fell steadily throughout the morning. The Dow Jones industrial average slumped […]
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It might come to that. As the AP reported, “Charting a collision course with the White House, the Republican-controlled House approved legislation Friday to wipe out the three-year-old health care law that President Barack Obama has vowed to preserve — and simultaneously prevent a partial government shutdown that neither party claims to want. ” … […]
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